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Almost 140 men have lost a 'healthy' testicle in six years due to NHS blunders - leading to £3 million being dished out in compensation

Some £2.8 million in compensation was dished out to those who were affected

The statistics were released by NHS Resolution - which is the litigation authority

They revealed some of the most horrific cases that have occurred in England

By STEPHEN MATTHEWS FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 07:13 EST, 26 January 2018 | UPDATED: 08:05 EST, 26 January 2018

A series of NHS blunders have caused 137 men to lose one of their testicles in the past six years, according to latest figures.

Some £2.8 million in compensation was dished out to those who were affected by the 'devastating' incidents - around £20,000 each.

The statistics, released by NHS Resolution - which is the litigation authority, revealed some of the most horrific cases that have occurred.

They include the case of an unidentified man who had his healthy testicle removed - rather than the cancerous one.

Another saw his testicle become gangrenous and had to be cut out after reportedly being given the wrong treatment for torsion.

Some £2.8 million in compensation was dished out to those who were affected by the 'devastating' incidents - around £20,000 each +1

The figures, given to The Sun, prompted concerns by medical negligence lawyers about the long-term effects.

Nicola Wainwright, of law firm Leigh Day, told the newspaper: 'It is devastating, particularly if they are young and not yet in a long-term relationship.

'They are embarrassed having to explain their injury to future partners.

'It’s also a tragedy if they are hoping to have a family and are worried about their fertility.'

NHS Improvement said: 'With incidents like this, our organisations examine what happened to understand what went wrong and identify how to improve their care.'

The NHS typically pays out around £20,000 when it admits it is at fault for leaving men as monorchid - the medical term for having just one testicle.

But payments for removing a man’s only healthy testicle in a surgical mix-up can be around £70,000 as the individual gets compensation for being left infertile.

Often the compensation figure includes a sum to pay for cosmetic surgery to provide the men with a false testicle.

In 2013, a 48-year-old company director, revealed he was taking legal action against Salisbury District Hospital after he had a healthy testicle removed by mistake.

The unnamed man had gone into theatre expecting a cancerous testicle would be removed, but 40 minutes after the operation a doctor realised the blunder.

The healthy testicle was then frozen, while a plastic surgeon was rushed to the scene and tried to undo the damage. He said he went through 'incredible stress and strain'.

The most common reason for payouts is when medics misdiagnose testicular torsion where the tubes inside the body get twisted cutting off the blood supply.

The condition, which can happen after strenuous exercise, has to be diagnosed quickly as the testicle can be dead within a few hours.

Other claims result from the consequences of hernia operations where the blood supply to the testicle is accidentally cut off in the surgery.

I wonder what the statistics are for various other countries?

You d think they d have a sliding scale that would pay men based on age and if they had any kids yet ? The younger men getting more than older men for the greater number of years of lost use of a testicle.

Makes you wonder how so many mistakes are made with what is at stake for these men and only 2 balls to keep track of doing surgery on.?

The mistakes in treating testicular torsions are more understandable but still terrible for the men and boys. Most drs wrongly think all testicular torsions are immensely painful every time and only affect males from 8 to 25 years old. But the pain can vary a lot from intense pain, to partial pain, to numbness only. And males of any age can get it, even if most cases do begin or fall in the younger years around puberty.

Cutting spermatic cords in hernia surgery is being grossly sloppy and incompetant. Those drs need to be re trained.

Think of all the money the eunuchs on this site would have gotten at 20,000 to 70,000 per testicle.

That American reality TV show about cheapskates triggered lots of men into wanting to sell their healthy testicles for big money after an older man on that TV program claimed some medical study was willing to pay men big money for selling and removing their testicles. Seems it was either a fake story, or the payment was not to buy healthy testicles. People were saying purchasing body parts is illegal in the USA. Maybe instead of buying testicles the study was paying men to give up a healthy testicle to be able to test an artificial testicle ? But why pay and cut off healthy balls with lots of healthy men that are always easily available who already were missing one or both testicles. No big money payments would be needed to have them nutless enough to be in the study without removing any testicles.

Interesting story here. Reminds me of patients using bold ink markers on their own body parts to label the correct one to operate on, hoping to avoid surgery on the wrong organs. But the sterile field pre surgery washing of the organ would wash off the marker ink before the surgery.

Now the surgery team is supposed to confirm which organ before every surgery begins. Looks like that s not being done.

Any of these men 139 British men or others like them logged onto EA ? To tell us how it happened to them ?

Thanks for posting all of these real news stories on here !